It's a shame to reveal the finely crafted intricacies of the plot, but the innovative details of Harry and Lucy's courtship demand sharing. |
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From gentle persuasion to threats and abuse, coercion was apart of the courtship process. |
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Thus, females that attempted to avoid courtship might be able to do so by selecting sites with fewer pheromonal cues from males. |
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During the breeding season, groups of males do their courtship display together, puffing out air sacs in their chest and spreading their tails. |
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Decapods are known for elaborate courtship displays, such as those demonstrated by the fiddler crab. |
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Both the numbers of flight maneuvers and courtship displays of males increase with the number of females in a harem. |
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Male courtship display includes extending the dorsal fin, pursuing, and eventually biting the female. |
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Triggered by dusk's fading daylight, male fireflies lift off into the air and begin their courtship. |
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Formation of pair bonds begins in October with courtship displays continuing until mating takes place, usually in March. |
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The smoking ban has even fashioned the return of courtship through conversation. |
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Most species perform prelaying courtship feeding, which conflicts with mate guarding, and copulate frequently. |
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Bronzed Cowbirds perform spectacular three-part courtship displays incorporating both of their major categories of song. |
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He was one of the first to film courtship behavior of Sandhill Cranes, Spruce Grouse, and Greater-Prairie Chickens. |
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Gift-giving in courtship traditionally was handled discreetly, with men offering women small gifts on special occasions. |
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Receptive females usually show a preference for males with large size, large ornaments, and high courtship activity, as in the guppy. |
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I recorded songs from spontaneously singing males while collecting ethological data on courtship and territorial behavior. |
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For the mass of the population it did imply a departure from established patterns of marriage and courtship. |
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The rules of courtship don't apply to you, and so your behavior is confusing and unpredictable. |
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His cure also establishes a different gender hierarchy, in that it prompts the couple to move from courtship to marriage. |
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Patching together diverse pieces of information, some traits of traditions of courtship and marriage in rural areas can be sketched. |
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Strict rules governed young women's courtship behavior because of the possibility of pregnancy and the importance of a prudent choice. |
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In one, a man taking a woman out on a first date skips courtship and immediately proposes marriage, the sources said. |
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Their courtship had begun in the early days of his time at Parchman, just weeks after his ill-fated dabble in air piracy. |
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In this species, male courtship drumming has been shown to be an honest indicator of heritable viability. |
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Men's courtship attempts were described by comparison to just about every other public bid for power men engaged in. |
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After a year-long courtship, a diamond and sapphire ring from India sealed the deal. |
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A more light-minded woman than Anna Reynolds might have swooned at the romance of this troubled courtship. |
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A three-year courtship enabled them to paint realistic portraits of one another, lessening the chances of a rude awakening after marriage. |
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Great Horned Owls are early nesters and begin calling in courtship in early winter. |
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Diane and Derek had a whirlwind courtship of two years and the question of the day was, where exactly did the happy couple meet? |
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Nuptial gifts provided by males during courtship or mating can influence female mating preference. |
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The novel is a modern day romance novel that takes us through courtship, marriage, and its aftermath. |
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I believe that the biblical design would be friendship, courtship and then marriage. |
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Males of over half of the species of manakins produce startling sounds with their wings during courtship displays. |
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Male golden-collared manakins clear leaf litter from the ground to form courts, which they then use as arenas for intense courtship displays. |
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Scepticism failed to save her from scenting danger in the ardent courtship of a rich young Philadelphian. |
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Milou and Squawk, two young males, are also beginning to exhibit courtship behavior, hanging out with each other, billing and bowing. |
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For males, we noted all territorial and courtship behavior during censuses and used this information to determine the social status of a male. |
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During courtship, the female often takes the lead, staking her breeding territory and fighting with other females over potential mates. |
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Love, courtship, marriage, the existence of children, her husband's illness and death, are stated unemotionally. |
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It juggles the joyous thrills of matchmaking and courtship with the dark alleys of pain and grief. |
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These results indicate that male fruit flies adaptively refine their courtship behavior with experience. |
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During his courtship display, the male puffs up his body and fans his tail. |
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The cameras were triggered automatically by any movement in the vicinity of the bower, where all courtship and mating take place. |
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In fact, if the truth were told, his long courtship of Inger was as much a courtship of the business as of its proprietress. |
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A number of mutants showing abnormalities in courtship behavior have been identified, many of which show reduced levels of courtship behavior. |
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Very nearly the first hundred pages are devoted to her parentage, schooling, courtship and marriage. |
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The actual courtship and spawning are not at all violent or rough compared to some other labyrinth fish. |
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Real courtship is about persuasion, not marketing, and the techniques of the laboratory cannot help us translate the motivations of the heart. |
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His huge mane may be a handicap that prevents him from helping the hunt, but in courtship size matters. |
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Only an initiated man is ready to withstand the dangers of courtship and marriage. |
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The accused, who acted in several Odia serials, had married her in 2010 after a few years of courtship. |
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In addition to communicating through song, larks will raise the crest of feathers in their head during agonistic and courtship displays. |
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Winch attempted to relate the extent of resolution of the Oedipus complex to progress in people's courtship behavior. |
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The true stakes of courtship put young men making offers of marriage at the mercy of the women they wooed. |
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Larger women are stigmatized, especially with regard to sexuality and courtship. |
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The acting in Candida is realistic and accurately captures the trials and tribulations of courtship. |
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The movie focuses on the troubled courtship and marriage of Plath and the poet Ted Hughes. |
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Their elaborate dance of courtship, which cannot call itself by that name, is the film's central motif. |
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In the process of courtship, the approach that would make you feel irresistible is moods-swing, blow hot and cold in love, vacillate. |
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Mating in many animals increases predation risk, and courtship is often performed near where mating will occur. |
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During courtship, males sing to defend their territories and attract mates. |
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So, too, men and women seem to be different, at least when it comes to courtship behavior. |
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Most Americans are familiar with the polka, but few of them know that it is a Czech courtship dance. |
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A noisy courtship begins in earnest in November, with squawking, prancing, and strutting. |
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In arena trials, females that were exercised to exhaustion before courtship mated with smaller males than did control females. |
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During courtship, the male displays for the female by scraping a nest and bowing next to the female while flashing the white on his tail. |
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In this study early courtship behavior, as measured by telephone calling patterns, emerged as a significant variable. |
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Their courtship had only lasted three weeks, before she was crowned as Queen and Protector. |
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This may be due to the cheetah's prolonged courtship behavior, which requires extensive territory. |
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Short-tailed Albatrosses engage in elaborate courtship dances and tend to maintain long-term pair bonds. |
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The courtship behavior of these males begins with circular rotations of the palpi. |
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Much Ado About Nothing looks at courtship, flirtation, practical joking and deceptions in the setting of a leisurely country house party. |
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Their immaculate feathers impervious to sleet and rain, a pair of white-capped albatross engage in affectionate courtship rituals. |
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They hope to make their extraordinary acts of romantic courtship a moment indelibly imprinted on the minds of their lovers. |
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Apart from the lost paternity, other males may also decrease mating success by disrupted courtship or female avoidance. |
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The cloacal and genial glands were chosen because they release pheromones used in mate attraction or courtship. |
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As some of us slept, others watched the courtship of a pair of paradise flycatchers and a pair of crested buntings. |
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The women, their partners in the cueca, the traditional Chilean courtship dance, must dance alone. |
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The test was internally corrected for differences in reactivity or spontaneous courtship behavior between mutant and wild-type flies. |
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The male performs spectacular courtship displays and two eggs are laid around mid-May, four days apart. |
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The dance ritual of the male and female during courtship and pair-bonding is one of the most entertaining spectacles in the world of birds. |
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The Andean cock-of-the-rock is a brilliantly colored, pigeon-size bird known for its elaborate courtship displays. |
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The early 19th century is a particularly potent facet of period courtship, when the war led to a shortage of eligible young gentlemen for gently born ladies. |
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One of the lefties she met was a sociology instructor named Philip Rieff, whom she married after a 10-day courtship. |
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She met Saad a few years later and the two were married in 2003 after a three-month courtship. |
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With their stately stature, wingspreads as broad as eight feet, loud calls, and elaborate courtship dances, cranes are among the most impressive birds in the world. |
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During the courtship, which can last up to several hours, the male vibrates and crosses in front of the female, while the female is preparing for spawning by digging the redd. |
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Male courtship displays and bright coloration are usually assumed to provide information to females about some aspect of the male's value as a mate. |
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Satin bowerbird courtship involves behavioral displays by males, which may be both beneficial and costly for females, and may favor female signaling. |
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In some species, males have courtship displays which may involve feather fluffing, holding the wings out, shaking them, and raising the tail feathers. |
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It was a courtship dance, involving a combination of hops and steps. |
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Her bloodlessness functions at times as delicacy here, especially in the awkward courtship scenes, but her acting always seems like play-acting to me. |
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The letters were greatly praised as models of politeness, for their wit, and for the candidness displayed by the authors regarding their conduct during their courtship. |
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Females begin to cannibalize males during the first copulation, but males usually survive and achieve a second copulation following a second period of courtship. |
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What made for an intoxicating courtship, however, resulted in a troubled marriage. |
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Lying to get a date, as Smith and Kozinski correctly suggest, is a sanctified practice in human courtship. |
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One possible benefit of mate choice occurs if females can use male courtship signals as an honest indicator of male nutritional contributions at mating, nuptial gifts. |
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All deer are polygamous, with males competing for females, but the manner in which each species approaches courtship has much to do with the nature of its environment. |
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In the variegated pupfish, the entrance of a female into a male's territory will stimulate neighbors to intrude and disrupt the courtship of the territorial male. |
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Courtship behavior in Photinus fireflies provides a unique opportunity to explore the interaction between female preference, male courtship signals and nuptial gifts. |
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We used virtual stickleback males that differed either in red throat coloration, courtship intensity, body size, or in combinations of these traits. |
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The trouble is, the rules governing courtship today are vexing and often destructive, reducing the stuff of poetry to something akin to emotional dodgeball. |
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In all species of Laupala, the male song structure is simple, consisting of a rhythmic train of pulses produced during courtship by stridulation of the forewings. |
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For comic effect, the Ancient Britons are portrayed as dim-witted, fur-wearing cave-dwellers who club their women-folk over the head by way of courtship. |
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Several species of birds such as cock-of-the-rocks and birds of paradise clear courts used as arenas during elaborate courtship displays to females. |
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The male fiddler crab, Uca pugilator, drums the ground with his large chela during courtship, especially at night when waving the chela is ineffective as a signal. |
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The highly modified courtship plumes found in many species of birds of paradise are only one extreme of the diversity of courtship plumes found in birds. |
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Researchers earlier identified the courtship chemicals used by other cockroach species, but the romance scent of the German cockroach remained elusive. |
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The Zulu, on the other hand, have their own traditional courtship practices which deviate somewhat from the patriarchal standard typical of most tribal societies. |
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Studies by a scientist at the University of Maryland show that male bowerbirds modify their courtship rituals based on the females' body language. |
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Women's simultaneous desire for love and romance and anxiety about the exigencies of marriage lent them a peculiar potency in courtship negotiations. |
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For those who think of Romney as a passionless man, you have to read the story of the courtship of his wife Ann. |
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And how amorous you become when your courtship with the muses is going strong. |
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However, the Republican base will be far less forgiving of Paul for his criticism of police policy and his courtship of Sharpton. |
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In addition to communication during courtship and reproduction, vibrations can transfer information among social groups, including sibling groups. |
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Participants who called more different boys or made more total calls to boys during adolescence were considered to have engaged in more early courtship behavior. |
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Although young people may initiate courtship, marriage is often arranged by the family, with older siblings or extended family members suggesting possible mates. |
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In The Taming Of The Shrew, courtship and marriage are not so much the result of love but rather an institution of society that people are expected to take part in. |
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An American psychologist once conducted a survey on more than 500 married couples to find out the correlations between the duration of courtship and marriage satisfaction. |
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Within the Zulu Kingdom in the late 1800s, an elaborate system of bead language was used, mainly to communicate messages about courtship in love tokens. |
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The resulting interviews document the women's experiences of wartime deprivation, courtship and marriage, immigration, and adaptation to American life. |
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Enter the romantic plot of heterosexual courtship and marriage, which deploys its forward-looking, more inclusive and reproductive vision via a traffic in women. |
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Among many good scenes in the book, Russel's courtship of his college sweetheart, a portrait of a nerd falling in love, is particularly well done. |
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Instead of organizing around fictional engagements with historically verifiable events, most Irish national tales center around courtship and marriage. |
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What looks like a brown bear brawl is actually some rather rambunctious courtship behavior, say the authors, whose photographs frequently appear in these pages. |
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But the courtship behaviors and rituals documented are a boon to science. |
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Brown trout embryos were sampled from wild redds after using a VHR camera to observe and record the courtship behavior of adults in selected areas of the River Sella. |
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In courtship, the male attracts the female with an aerial display. |
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Their social behaviour in summer months has been studied and is thought to represent courtship behaviour. |
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Harana and Kundiman are prevalent during this time wherein these songs are often used in courtship rituals. |
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So you aren't deserting the Caversham ship. They'll understand. After all, their courtship was pretty whirlwind itself. |
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In 1873 A Pair of Blue Eyes, a novel drawing on Hardy's courtship of Emma, was published under his own name. |
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The male swoops down over the nest flapping its wings in a courtship display. |
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The courtship flight includes a mix of aerial acrobatics, precise spirals, and steep dives. |
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Maria's parents disapproved of the courtship and ended the relationship by sending her to school in Paris. |
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Meanwhile, the couple's continued courtship attracted intense press and paparazzi attention. |
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Common ostriches raised entirely by humans may direct their courtship behaviour not at other ostriches, but toward their human keepers. |
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These males cluster around females and try to attract them with elaborate courtship displays and vocalizations. |
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These activities may have a variety of purposes, such as courtship, communication, dislodging parasites, or play. |
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Accounts from travelers described the various freedoms young women were provided in the realm of courtship. |
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Prespawning courtship involves fin displays and male grunting, which leads to pairing. |
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Scent plays an important part in courtship, with both animals sniffing each other. |
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Many species have elaborate courtship displays on the ground at dawn and dusk, which in some are given in leks. |
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Tactile communication involves individuals rubbing against each other, either in courtship or in aggression. |
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During courtship, the male newt displays for his prospective mate by vibrating his tail in front of her in a distinctive fashion. |
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Godwin and Wollstonecraft's unique courtship began slowly, but it eventually became a passionate love affair. |
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Lady Capulet and Juliet's nurse try to persuade Juliet to accept Paris's courtship. |
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By bringing Romeo into the scene to eavesdrop, Shakespeare breaks from the normal sequence of courtship. |
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He was then 34 years of age and had previously found little time for courtship. |
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Their courtship passed as something instantly forgotten, like an enchantment, or a mistake. |
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A parallel story explores the troubled courtship between Bozo, Frank's best friend, and Jackie, a young woman visiting the Sutherlands. |
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The first programme showcases the tiny springtail, whose elaborate courtship dance often goes unnoticed thanks to their size. |
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Everyone showed lots of skin and courtship perfumed the air. |
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The courtship rituals are performed throughout the day and night but spawning typically takes place at night. |
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Although privy to courtship behaviour of these familiar harbingers, we weren't lulled into thinking that spring had irrefutably sprung. |
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During a courtship display, male club-winged manakins knock their wings above their backs to create sound. |
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Let's hope they dispense with the slow courtship and start to dance. |
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These sounds are used for courtship, territorial defense and in distress, and include clicks, squeaks, barks and growls. |
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At the same time, all that virtual togetherness may overaccelerate a courtship. |
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Topis, medium-sized antelopes in Africa, reverse the standard roles in courtship, says Jakob Bro-Jorgensen of the Zoological Society of London. |
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While courtship starts on the ice, mating usually takes place in the water. |
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A study of Jamaicans dancing finds that some of Darwin's ideas about the evolution of animal courtship apply to people. |
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Small schools in the Bay of Fundy and the Hebrides have been seen swimming nose to tail in circles in what may be a form of courtship behaviour. |
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Their posture, with the neck stretched out, tells the male that they are available for courtship. |
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North American porcupines, as well as a range of other Hystricomorph rodents, engage in urine showering as part of courtship and other behaviors. |
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Picture these lionly lovers jumping through romantic hoops, otherwise known as the initial courtship phase, and then a disagreement or difference of opinion occurs. |
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The European polecat is a seasonal breeder, with no courtship rituals. |
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Her last courtship was with Francis, Duke of Anjou, 22 years her junior. |
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Estrildids and ploceids are clearly different in courtship posture, clutch size, egg coloration, pattern in mouth of the young, and mode of begging of the young. |
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Their most cherished ambition thereafter is a swift, exciting falling-in-love, a rapid courtship, a sackful of sentimental sloppery and then, then marriage. |
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By way of courtship, the black males will fly at each other at combat speed, full of bluster, to compete for the attention of the dowdier grey hens, at sites know as leks. |
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Now given over to yawning gaps in the courtship of debtors romantically linked to the annulment of fraudsters, the spectacular often has to fill in with the debacular. |
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Vibrations can provide cues to conspecifics about specific behaviors being performed, predator warning and avoidance, herd or group maintenance, and courtship. |
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Having been rebuffed once by his potential parents-in-law his courtship is unlikely to be a simple matter of dropping in for tea and Battenberg cake. |
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The courtship is initiated by the male chasing the female while calling continually, and later by ritual feeding, with copulation usually following. |
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Unlike virtually all academic readers of Austen since the 1950s, Janeites in foxholes do not think Austen's novels are about courtship and marriage. |
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